Novels like No. 38 Wutong Lane
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as No. 38 Wutong Lane, best match first.
- 1 Loyal to the Bone: The Life of Heidou 铁骨忠犬：黑豆的一生 With delicate prose, this novel follows Heidou through every stage of life, from birth and growing up to service and retirement. It powerfully portrays the deep bond and unspoken understanding between Heidou and humanity, a connection that transcends species. This is more than the legendary tale of a police dog. It is a moving tribute to life, loyalty, courage, and devotion, sure to touch your heart and bring you to tears. 1Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 2 The Farming Years in Qingxi Village 清溪村的田间岁月 In the final years of the Southern Song dynasty, the small Jiangnan village of Qingxi was left in ruins after devastating floods, its people starving and freezing. Su Dingshan, a retired soldier, used a jade pendant that foretold disasters to lead the villagers to safety. Faced with the wreckage, he refused to give in. Instead, he united the entire clan to rebuild their home from the mud... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Era of the Gray Wolf 苍狼纪元 A thousand-year bond, two lives joined by a single thought; a wolf clan epic, the wilderness's final song. This epic of the wolf clan spans a thousand years. It will take you across the wilderness and deep into the pack, where the howls of gray wolves carry the echoes of civilization. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 A Little Cutie Plays Matchmaker: I Became a Big Shot's Caretaker 萌娃牵线：我成大佬饲养员 Wild illustrator Lin Xiaoman finds adorable little Gu Xingci beside a trash can, and her life is turned upside down. This exquisitely cute child can recite Fortune 500 company reports, boss cats and dogs around, and comes with a "luck buff": whoever he clings to gets lucky, while anyone who crosses him is doomed. The boy's father is Gu Yanzhi, the business world's "Iceberg King of Hell." While searching for his son, he mistakes Lin Xiaoman for a suspect, but ends up becoming her personal ATM an —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Ginkgo Leaves Fall on the Title Page 银杏叶落在扉页 Lin Xi never imagined that a ginkgo leaf accidentally placed between the pages of a book would mark the beginning of her story with Gu Yan… This is a story about waiting and setting out to meet someone, filled with a slow-burning romance in the city and all the loveliness of things being "just right." Meeting you was like a ginkgo leaf falling in the perfect season, not a moment too soon or too late. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Steel and Cooking Smoke 钢铁与炊烟 This family epic spans more than seventy years. Through the marriages and missions of three generations of soldiers, it weaves a sweeping portrait of family and country... From vegetable plots in the Gobi Desert, to border outposts, to makeshift hospitals on the front lines of the fight against the pandemic, warmth rises everywhere, where iron will meets the bustle of everyday life. This is not only the story of one family's legacy, but also a heartfelt tribute to all the soldiers and their fami —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Lost in Peach Blossom Spring 桃源迷踪 Lin Ye, a postgraduate history student, had a peaceful academic life until the bizarre death of his grandfather, an archaeologist who had been obsessed with "The Peach Blossom Spring" all his life, turned everything upside down. Half of a tattered diary and an ancient map marked "Source of the Wuling Stream," left behind by his grandfather, set him on a journey to uncover the truth. The diary's chilling warning, "The Peach Blossom Spring is no paradise, but a prison," haunted him like a curse... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Wolf Song of the Cangyuan 苍原狼歌 On the vast grasslands of northwest China, from the 1980s to the early twenty-first century, a she-wolf with a white tuft on the tip of her left ear, known as Xue Er, loses her pack as a pup and struggles to survive through resilience and cunning. She rebuilds her pack three times and suffers the loss of her cubs twice, yet never stops upholding the laws of survival on the grasslands. Meanwhile, Tengger, a grassland herdsman who once made his living hunting wolves, has his view of them transform 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Chele Youth Beneath Yin Mountain 阴山之下敕勒少年行 “The wolf pack is coming! Put away your riding crops and take up your bows!” Fifteen-year-old Tengger hears the warning at the horse-racing festival, but the Turkish cavalry has already shattered the peace of Chilechuan. To protect his tribe, he sets out on a path of revenge. During a bloody battle in the Yin Mountains, he meets Liu Wenyan, a scholar from the Central Plains, and Nalan Mingyue, a mysterious shaman. Together, they gradually uncover the dark conspiracy between the imperial court a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Sunshine in Qingshan Hollow 青山坳里有晴天 At 24, Lin Wanxing was an urban office worker who, after losing her job and learning that her grandmother was gravely ill, returned to Qingshan Hollow, the remote mountain village where she was born and raised. After her grandmother passed away, Lin Wanxing was sorting through her belongings when she accidentally awakened the Spirit Spring Space hidden inside an ancestral wooden hairpin. Within it were a spirit spring that could improve soil and nourish all things, astonishingly fertile black ea —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 I Won't Let Her Down 不负她 A new work is here! Come read my story on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Warmth of Life in the Courtyard 槐树院的烟火气 In an ordinary village on the eastern Henan plains called Huaishu Courtyard live an elderly couple, Li and Wang, their son Li Jianguo, his wife Zhang Guilan, and their four growing children: Li Dajun, Li Erjun, Li Sanya, and Li Sigou. The family of eight is crammed into a few old tiled houses. Every day, the clatter of pots and pans, the children’s squabbling, and the elders’ nagging fill their home, painting a lively picture of rural life, with all its ups and downs. This is no earth-shaking le —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 A Thousand Sights Along the Country Road 乡途万象 This story is entirely fictional. Any similarities are purely coincidental. The Many Sights Along the Country Road is not just one man’s story, but a portrait of an era and a heartfelt tribute to all those ordinary people who persevere. … One road, one vehicle, one driver: witnessing a decade of sweeping change in the towns and countryside, and seeing an extraordinary epic unfold in an ordinary life. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Transmigrate to the 1970s: I Get Married in a Flash from the Start 穿越七零，开局闪婚了 [Military Marriage · Period Setting · Transmigration · Sweet Romance · Family and Neighborhood Life · Countryside · Face-Slapping · Pocket Dimension] Original title: Transmigrated to the 1970s, Married at First Sight from the Start “Since it’s already happened, I’ll take responsibility for you.” The cold voice passed through the covers and reached Su Wanwan’s ears. “W-Who said I wanted you to take responsibility?” “How did I get here?” Su Wanwan was just as confused. Where was this? She’d only g 40.2kReads8.3Score4.5kShelves
- 15 The Darling Girl Transmigrates into a Period Novel and Marries a Rough Disabled Man 娇娇女穿年代文后，嫁给残疾糙汉 [System + transmigrate into a book + farming + period setting] Because she never finished the last bite of rice in her bowl, Lu Xingyue was taken into a period novel by the “Every Grain Is Hard-Won” atonement System. To atone, she had to work every day and accumulate a certain number of labor points. If she fell short, even by a single point, the System would strike her with lightning. Lu Xingyue silently raised her middle finger behind her back... “Damn it...” As if being dragged into an atonem 452Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 16 Transmigrated to the 1960s: I'm a Diplomat 穿越六零，我是外交官 "I Transmigrated to the 1960s, and I’m Just an Extra" Hang in there! The humble extra eventually becomes a diplomat. ▷ [Hardcore survival] Transmigrated to the great famine of 1959, she survives by digging into rat holes for grain and selling mountain goods. ▷ [A quiet comeback] She pretends to be invisible, but gets noticed by an officer after studying foreign languages: “There’s more to this girl than meets the eye.” ▷ [Career highlight] From orphan to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a bowl 5.7kReads8.1Score306Shelves
- 17 The Fearsome Female Soldier King Spoils That Pretty Boy 好端端的女兵王，就宠那个小白脸 [Period Setting, Soldier King, Strong Female Lead and Weak Male Lead] Lin Ye, a general from a matriarchal world, arrives in this strange place. To support her family, she has no choice but to follow the path she's taken before and become a soldier once again. A spoiled rich kid in modern society knows he has no abilities, so he wants to find a strong woman to support him. They hit it off at once. Marriage! They have to get married! 8.7kReads8.0Score945Shelves
- 18 Reborn in the 1980s: Sweet Military Romance, Spoiled by Her In-Laws 重生八零甜军婚，大院公婆亿万宠 [Handsome Soldier + Adoring In-Laws + No Misunderstandings Because They Actually Talk] On the first day modern office worker Yu Ruyan was reborn in 1980, she happened to arrive just as the original owner was being forced into marriage. She thought a forced marriage couldn’t be sweet, but after one taste, it was so sweet it made her throat ache. Her handsome soldier husband had money and stamina to spare, and her in-laws doted on their daughter-in-law without limits. A reborn military marriage co 466Reads8.9Score101Shelves
- 19 Little One of the Seventies, Hoping to Make Dad a Dragon 七零小崽，望父成龙 [Period] [Rivals] [Ensemble Cast] [Everyday Family Life] [No Golden Finger] [The 1970s] [Book Transmigration] After transmigrating, Zhang Liuliu had been living the good life, convinced she was the chosen one. Here comes this gorgeous woman who’s going to get rich! Then one day, her beautiful mother stroked her head and said, “Liuliu, Mom is going back to the city.” Zhang Liuliu felt like the sky had fallen. It turned out she was living inside a book, and she wasn’t just not the heroine: she was 7.5kReads7.7Score740Shelves
- 20 A Tycoon’s Heir? Perfect, I’ll Take Him Home as My Husband 资本家大少爷？正好扛回家做老公 [Period setting + fishing village + marriage first, love later + devoted husband + building a fortune] “Chu, do you want a man or not?” One moment, Song Nianchu is celebrating her company going public. The next, she has transmigrated into an orphan girl in a fishing village in the 1970s. The girl is young and beautiful, but born with superhuman strength. She can kill a mad bull with one punch, and now that she is nearly twenty, no one dares marry her. Her late father is so furious that he appear 22.1kReads8.1Score866Shelves
- 21 The Little One’s Happy Life 小不点的幸福生活 [1970s setting + transmigration into a book + the whole family dotes on her + everyday family life + building wealth + a touch of ensemble cast] Lin Xiaoman was born into the world of the lucky heroine novel, A Happy Life in the 1970s with Yi Ke. Unfortunately, she wasn't Yi Ke. She was just the contrast character in Yi Ke's happy life. The dutiful daughter who hoped her father would make something of himself looked at him, lazing about and wasting his time on cockfighting and dog-walking. His t 55.1kReads8.9Score3.7kShelves
- 22 I Became the Wife of a Commander Who Died Young! Now His Whole Family Dotes on Me 穿成早死首长的妻子！被全家团宠 (A Novel Set in the 1980s) (Military Marriage + Marriage First, Love Later + Transmigrating into a Book vs. Transmigrating) A car accident sent Ye Fangfei into a novel. Its world was a parallel timeline in the early 1980s. The novel’s protagonists were the younger brother of her husband, Shen Zhanxun, and his wife. Shen Zhanxun was nothing but a stepping-stone they used to build their wealth. In the novel, Shen Zhanxun left the military to join the municipal public security bureau. He died while 92.8kReads9.0Score11.4kShelves
- 23 What?! After Awakening, the Lazy Wife Only Wants to Crush Villains and Make Money 惊！懒媳妇觉醒后只想虐渣搞钱 (This novel features a large ensemble cast.) [An incredibly strong, lazy, top-notch wife + a younger, chatty husband, taking down scumbags + making money] Jiang Yiqing had a wonderful married life! She didn’t have to clean the house or look after the kids, and her father-in-law, the factory director, had her back at work. All she had to do was clock out on time and go home to lie down. Life was so perfect she could see the good times stretching endlessly ahead! Then one day, she dreamed that 6.8kReads8.9Score599Shelves
- 24 Reborn as the Little Cousin of the Real Heiress 穿成真千金的小族妹 [The animated series is now available!] You can submit adaptation requests at the bottom right of the novel-reading screen! [Though set in a period piece, this is actually a fictional world, so don’t overthink it. One important reminder: there is a romantic pairing!] [A friendly reminder: Don’t read this novel while putting your child to bed or in public. Your kid might wake up laughing or shaking with laughter. According to readers, some have spat water, tea, and cola, while others have sprayed 48.7kReads9.2Score6.7kShelves
- 25 Transmigrating to the 1970s: The Legitimate Daughter Is a Super Mom 穿七零，嫡女当妈超会养 [Ancient Times to Modern Day + Military Marriage + Period Setting + Island + Grasslands + Mutual Devotion] After taking revenge for her mother, Song Shuqian, the legitimate daughter of a general’s household, arrives in 1968 and becomes the daughter of a capitalist family. She thought she could enjoy life without a care, since her family was wealthy and she was an only child. But in 1968, being a capitalist’s daughter meant danger. To escape her predicament, she impulsively marries Wei Jianguo, a 20.1kReads9.2Score2kShelves
- 26 Reborn in the 1980s: I Won’t Marry an Officer, I’ll Marry a Rich Playboy 重生八零：不嫁军官，嫁纨绔 [Devoted couple + sweet romance + pampered life as a wealthy family’s daughter-in-law in the 1980s] In her past life, Jiang Xianli was set up by her twin sister and married a man who married into wealth for his own benefit, while her sister took her place and married a spoiled rich heir. After the wedding, her husband was specially recruited into a military academy and rose through the ranks to become a senior officer. Jiang Xianli became the official’s wife whom every woman envied. But her sist 112kReads9.1Score6.5kShelves
- 27 I Save My Family with My Jinxed Tongue 我靠乌鸦嘴拯救全家 Theme: Knowledge changes your fate! Everyone’s got eight hundred tricks up their sleeve + courtyard-house drama + calculated self-interest + family squabbles + stockpiling + outrageous characters + a jinx’s tongue + playing dumb to catch the tiger. One day, Lin Xixi transmigrates and becomes the biological daughter of an outrageous couple in a period novel. Outrageous characters are sly, lazy, greedy, and slippery: they can’t get enough of eating, but they’re no good at anything else. Luckily, h 318.5kReads9.1Score47.4kShelves
- 28 1959: With an Achievement System, She Throws Herself into the Grind 1959：携带成就系统，她卷了 This novel has been adapted into the short drama Sixies Technology's Glory. A stirring, inspirational, patriotic story, featuring a heroine who grows over time, strong values, smart characters all around, a one-on-one romance, love that develops over time, and plenty of humor. Du Yimeng only wants enough to eat and warm clothes in an era of scarcity. But after seeing the deep love others have for their country, she is gradually moved by their example and joins the fight for her nation. She wield 38kReads9.3Score3.5kShelves
- 29 The 1970s: The Glamorous Heiress Transmigrates into a Book with a Trillion-Dollar Fortune 七零：美艳娇气包带千亿资产穿书 The young lady never lived through that era, so you can't expect her to have the same spending habits as ordinary people. [Not a poverty-relief story] [Sweet romance + period setting + transmigrate into a book + golden finger + feel-good power fantasy] [Both are virgins, one-on-one romance] Shanghai–Beijing–Hong Kong [Warning: The heroine is spoiled and not truly kind or beautiful inside! The hero is a lovesick fool! Don't get hung up on prices! If there are any plot holes, just treat them as au 24.7kReads9.2Score2.5kShelves
- 30 A Stunning Beauty Hounded by an Obsessive Mad Dog in a Period Novel 漂亮美人在年代文被偏执疯狗缠上 [A calculating, self-serving heroine + an obsessive, possessive hero] Selfish, vain, materialistic, and always looking out for herself. And yet, countless people love her. In the original novel, Lin Luoxue is the heroine's sister, a cannon-fodder character who despises the poor and loves the rich, and juggles three men at once. Even after getting married, she's still unfaithful, and in the end, she dies while eloping with her lover. She's nasty, selfish, and plays with people's feelings while mo 57.5kReads8.8Score3.4kShelves
- 31 A Great Beauty Raises Kids in a Beijing Courtyard, 1980s Style 八零大美人四合院养娃日常 (Slice of life + sweet romance + raising children + family life + career) Zhao Jinshu was in her sixties. Her children had grown up and started families of their own, and she had seen her parents-in-law off. She was just about to travel around the country when she was reborn. She returned to the time a few months after she had first moved to the city. Back then, she knew nothing. A young bride from the countryside, she was shy, too embarrassed to speak up, and insecure. Even though her husband 54.2kReads9.3Score4.6kShelves
- 32 Back to the 1960s: Farming, Building a Fortune, and Raising the Kids 重回六零：种田发家养崽崽 Transmigrating into the impoverished 1960s wasn’t scary. Becoming a cannon-fodder supporting female character in a book wasn’t scary either. What was scary was that her three stepsons would grow up to become major villains, and all of them, along with their upright, aloof father, would meet tragic ends. How could she let that happen? Lin Qinghe looked at the three future villains, none of whom was even ten years old, and made up her mind: changing a villain starts when they’re young! 3.8kReads9.0Score504Shelves
- 33 Reborn as the Cannon-Fodder Wife, I Stole the Show in the Military Compound 穿成炮灰原配后，我惊艳军区大院 Also known as: Before I Lost My Virtue, I Rewrote the Life of the Cannon-Fodder First Wife [Period setting + military marriage + face-slapping + no golden finger + sweet romance + devoted couple] Xia Qingning unexpectedly transmigrates into a period romance novel written by a classmate who envies her. She becomes the original wife, who shares her name and is framed into losing her virtue, then jumps into a lake and dies tragically. The moment she opens her eyes, she’s at the scene of her violati 52.8kReads9.2Score5.4kShelves
- 34 Blind Corn! Rotten Potatoes! Worthless Children, Get on Your Knees! 瞎苞米！烂土豆！极品儿女靠边跪 [Period] [The 1980s] [Light Ensemble Cast] [Reborn] [Feel-Good] [No Golden Finger] [Family Life] (Also known as: Reborn in the 1980s: The Old Lady Leaves Her Children Behind) Seventy-year-old Wu Zhiqiu is Reborn in the era when her children still depend on her hard work and sacrifice! In her previous life, she played favorites and ended up alone and miserable in her old age. This time, she refuses to repeat the past. The old lady decides to leave her children behind and enjoy the rest of her lif 192.7kReads9.3Score8.1kShelves
- 35 A Mad Couple in the 1970s 七零年代疯批夫妇 Historical era + green tea schemer + obsessive love + unhinged + powerful lead + everyday family life + pocket dimension + food + healing + transmigrate into a book This is the story of two unfortunate souls saving each other. After transmigrating into the countryside as a little orphan, Ming Dai meets Zhou Sinian, a mad powerful man who loves wearing red headscarves. Under the protection of his reputation, she manages to establish herself in the village. Zhou Sinian was a cannon-fodder characte 107.2kReads9.3Score11kShelves
- 36 Military Marriage in the 1970s: After Joining the Army, She Became the Talk of the Family Compound 七零军婚：随军后她风靡家属院 [Stunning artist x tough, prison-style military officer] [Pocket dimension, limited appearances + sweet romance + satisfying wish fulfillment + no awful characters] Shi Tingyu is a young painter with a modest reputation. One day, she transmigrates to the 1970s and becomes the daughter of a weapons researcher. Before she can enjoy her new life, her parents face the prospect of being reported and sent down to the countryside. Unwilling to let her suffer, her parents quickly arrange a blind date fo 86kReads9.5Score9.9kShelves
- 37 Why Help Others Get What They Want? I’ll Choose Myself 成全别人？不如成全自己 In the book, Xu Jing'an spent her whole life helping others and putting them first, yet in the end, no one even said a kind word about her. This time, she's going to look after herself first and do what's best for her. 141.6kReads9.5Score11.6kShelves
- 38 Reborn in the 1980s: My Wife Is a Little Spicy 重生八零：媳妇有点辣 Her parents died young, her family was poor, and she was plain-looking. Xia Xiaolan had been dealt a terrible hand, but after nearly twenty years of hard work, she became an executive at a multinational corporation and finally put her life back on track... Then she wakes up to find herself reborn in the 1980s, as another Xia Xiaolan, this time with a face capable of bringing a kingdom to ruin. The original Xia Xiaolan had been dealt a winning hand, but chose to take her own life under the pressu 45kReads9.5Score5kShelves
- 39 You’re Forcing Me to the Countryside? This Scientist’s Wife Will Empty Your Whole House 逼我下乡？科研军嫂搬空你全家 [Military Marriage + Period Setting + Powerful Lead + Face-Slapping + One-on-One Romance] Xia Li, a powerful wielder of both thunder and space abilities, had just come through the apocalypse. She became the founding general entrusted with the New World's Omniscient Eye System, ready to enjoy a quiet retirement. She only took a short nap, but transmigrated instead. After transmigrating, she faced two choices: Either marry a self-important mama's boy who expected her to put up with his mistress af 124.1kReads9.4Score10.1kShelves
- 40 Reborn as the Abusive Novel’s Male Lead’s Mother 穿成虐文男主他妈 [Short story contest] [Foodie fiction] [A sweet little treat] Overnight, she transmigrates into a book with a baby in her belly whose father is unknown. On closer inspection, the baby turns out to be the male lead from the tragic novel she read before. He's a poor little thing whose father doesn't care for him and whose mother doesn't love him. Penniless, Ding Sha relies on her excellent cooking skills to become the food goddess of a construction site. Spicy diced chicken, cured pork with garlic 30.8kReads9.6Score3.7kShelves
- 41 EN The Bystander's Self-Cultivation in a 1970s Transmigration Novel 穿书七十年代吃瓜群众的自我修养 Have you ever transmigrated to a different scene just by blinking? Lin Yuzhu has. She transmigrated in a daze to the 1970s. No, she transmigrated into a book. She has a System, and the female lead is there too. There are also supporting female characters, but she isn't one of them. She's just an onlooker who wandered into the story by mistake. As an onlooker, she gets to watch the drama unfold every day. She doesn't want other people's dogs, and she doesn't get involved in other people's busines 95.8kReads9.6Score8.7kShelves
- 42 The Whole Family Is Insanely Eavesdropping on My Thoughts 全家偷听我心声杀疯了，我负责吃奶 The Red Fruit short drama adaptation of My Whole Family Hears My Thoughts: Fu Bao Chaochao is now open for reservations! Please show it lots of support and give it a follow! [Whole-family mind reading + cannon fodder + beloved by the whole family + powerful figure transmigrates into a book + play the pig to eat the tiger + feel-good story] Lu Zhaozhao transmigrated into a book. She became a cannon-fodder character who was drowned at birth, while the heroine stole her identity. The heroine turned 14.9kReads9.6Score3.2kShelves
